All Films

Hollywood My Home Town

1965 • 45 min • United States of America

Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood.

A Fable Retold

1965 • 10 min • India

This cartoon film explains how the Cumulative Time Deposit Scheme could be beneficial to the people and shows how they could invest in it by starting payroll savings.

Neither Heaven, Nor Hell

1965 • 18 min • Soviet Union

God and Satan are arguing who will get the soul of the industrious carpenter Kuzma.

Concert

1965 • 16 min • Yugoslavia

The camera follows four people, musicians, on their walk through the city, seemingly in real time. They go through photogenic city squares and streets and end up at the beach.

Gare du Nord

1965 • 17 min • France

In a busy, noisy neighborhood, a frustrated young wife in a failing marriage is offered her freedom by her indifferent husband, but has second thoughts after meeting an intriguing stranger.

The Artist Who Did Not Want to Paint

1965 • 13 min • United States of America

This short, a prologue to the feature film The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965), focuses on Michelangelo’s life and his many famous frescoes and sculptures. After a short visit to Caprese, where the artist was born, and the town where he first studied his craft, we see many of his most important works. They include the Madonna of the Stairs, completed at age 15; the statues of the Medici Tombs; and his two most famous Biblical figures: David and Moses.

An Otter in the Family

1965 • 48 min • United States of America

The story tells of a young boy who finds an orphaned baby otter and decides to adopt him into the family, but as the otter grows it wreaks all kinds of havoc, including raiding the neighbor's chicken coop.

Marguerite Duras and Stripper Lolo Pigalle

1965 • 19 min • France

In this episode of Dim Dam Dom, Duras interviews the stripper Lolo Pigalle. A clip of Lolo dancing in a golden dress is followed by an intense and intimate conversation in which Lolo discusses the definition of work, the splitting of the self, and acting vs. sex work.

Subterrâneos do Futebol

1965 • 32 min • Brazil

The practices of football in Brazil and the issues surrounding the sport. Press, players as a commodity, the popular passion, the practice on the fields of várzea. The statements of Luiz Carlos de Freitas, a young promise of Palmeiras, and Feola's coach, as well as an interview with Pelé.

Marathon

1965 • 28 min • United States of America

Started as a class project in what was likely the first filmmaking course ever taught at Harvard, Marathon documents the running of the 1964 Boston Marathon.

Instant Cinema

1965 • 2 min • United Kingdom

This early quick-fire cut-up animation melds machine gunfire with scratched film. The soundtrack was made by Keen in 2007 with a wasp synthesizer and a shortwave radio.

Melting

1965 • 6 min • United States of America

Melting shows the natural monostructural disintegration of a strawberry sundae, its passage from rigidity to softness, from edibility to waste. The spoon resting on the plate refers to the human presence, which lurks behind the screen, declining to interfere with what transpires. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

Home Movies - Rome/Florence/Venice/Greece

1965 • 14 min

"N.B. Sound On Cassette. Sync beginning of sound with image before man in a red sweater. Generally, start cassette while film leader is seen" - Filmmakers Coop description

Ah, Sweet Mouse-Story Of Life

1965 • 6 min • United States of America

Tom chases Jerry around a high-rise apartment, and then around the ledge surrounding the building. They torment each other with a compressed air horn. Jerry goes down a drainpipe and Tom follows, stretching himself the length of the pipe (and getting unstuck with help from the air horn).

The Devil's Work

1965 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

A nice guy who always finishes last discovers a potion that helps him turn the tables on the rude, stick it to the inconsiderate, and maybe overcome his own meekness.

Tajimara

1965 • 53 min • Mexico

First of two films that make up the collaborative film "Los Bienamados" (The Beloved, 1965). It narrates the encounters and misunderstandings of a pair of lovers during the years, from their adolescence to maturity.

Film Magazine of the Arts

1965 • 20 min • United States of America

"In Spring, 1963 Show Magazine called me and asked that I make a film on arts in New York. I told them, why did they want me to make it - didn't they know I was a bit unusual? ... 'We want something unusual,' they said. So I went out and made a newsreel on arts. Show people looked at the rough cut of the film and became very angry. 'But there is nothing about Show Magazine and DuPont fabrics in the movie,' they said. 'What has that to do with the arts in New York!' I said. The battle was short. The film was destroyed. Really, I have no idea what they did with it. This workprint of the first FILM MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS is the only print in existence, as far as I know." -- J.M.

Music to Strip By

1965 • 10 min

It's the age of the hi-fi and the L.P. Maryann puts a record on the turntable, and a woman who's also the narrator shows Maryann and Cory how to do a striptease.

Viva la libertad

1965 • 13 min • Chile

Animated short that addresses social and personal issues, begins with the prison and prisoners are seen as slaves and gendarmes as the all powerful, in a celebration of the gendarmes the prison burns down and the gendarmes kill the prisoners, one manages to escape and faces the city there is a parallel between a zoo and the prison showing that it is similar, and this character releases the animals. A police chase is seen where the character runs, he enters a dead end street where they meet a bank, a church and other institutions which are compared to a jail, remaining motionless observing that any of their options are similar and it is seen that both society and the police fall on him.

What's Peckin'

1965 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody is causing too much damage. So much so that top scientists are called in to figure out a solution.

Lourdes

1965 • 33 min

A short film, capturing images of those on a pilgrimage in the city of Lourdes in France.

Canned Dog Feud

1965 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody is the object of desire between two feuding hillbillies' hound dogs.

Blue Room

1965 • 29 min • Poland

In 19th-century Poland, a young couple sets out for a weekend in the countryside. On the train they meet a mysterious Englishman traveling to the same destination, whose presence arouses their suspicions. Choosing to lodge in the room beside his—the fateful Blue Room—they soon find themselves drawn into a web of intrigue and menace.

I'm Just Wild About Jerry

1965 • 6 min • United States of America

Tom chases Jerry through city streets, gets run over by a streetcar (twice), and follows Jerry into a department store. In the toy department, they have some fun with radio-controlled cars and a collection of mouse dolls. They move on to sporting goods, where Jerry manages to combine table tennis with croquet.